The Pit and the Pendulum

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

In The Cask of Amontillado, a man shackles his offender and proceeds to wall him up with stone and mortar. In The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, the dying Valdemar is hypnotized and--after death--continues to speak through the trance. A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition describes his many tortures in The Pit and the Pendulum.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781533690326
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	06/09/2016
Pages:	26
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.05(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre.Poe died at the age of 40. The cause of his death is undetermined and has been attributed to alcohol, drugs, cholera, rabies, suicide (although likely to be mistaken with his suicide attempt in the previous year), tuberculosis, heart disease, brain congestion and other agents. Other Books of Author: • The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) • The Raven (1845) • The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) • The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) • The Pit and the Pendulum (1842) • Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) • The Cask of Amontillado (1846) • The Masque of the Red Death (1842) • The Purloined Letter (1844) • A Descent into the Maelström (1841)